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‘One of these was built at Edeowie, some distance from the station homestead.’

‘It is now 12 days since I applied to shift some sheep back to my homestead that are separated from the main farm by two fields.’

‘The artworks feature Australian scenes such as old homesteads or seascapes.’

‘The forest provided a large amount of timber for station buildings, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, cottages, and mines such as the Charlton, Moonta, Wallaroo and the Burra.’

‘The family will be given a homestead with 1500 sheep to manage.’

‘Though nothing remains of the Batten homestead, he can show you the flagstone which probably lay at the front door.’

‘That Saturday night, people flocked to the Mourie homestead to celebrate Graham's selection.’

‘Last Easter, it was party time at the homestead on Tanumbirini Station.’

‘When the University of Canterbury moved from its town site to Ilam, west of the city, the site was farmland with the homestead on it known as Okeover.’

‘The Brooklands homestead can be seen on the skyline.’

‘Station homesteads were thus widely scattered and invariably placed alongside the most abundant and reliable water sources.’

‘The homestead is now an impressive piece of architecture, combining the old with the new in a typically Australian style.’

‘Stoddart first settled on the Terrace Station on the Rakaia River in Canterbury where the homestead sited below the top of the terrace was said to be one of the windiest places in Canterbury.’

‘Eventually the homestead was completely renovated.’

‘Once Jim Chaffey had bought land to form a large station on the north of the Clarence as far as the Bluff station there was radio contact twice daily between the homestead at Kekerengu and the staff working inland.’

‘By 1851, he had hundreds of hives set up near his Coolangatta homestead, and had them supervised and operated by a young Aboriginal beekeeper.’

‘William employed several men as shepherds who lived in cottages with their wives near the homestead.’

‘On the afternoon they were due home we had all found jobs to do around the homestead.’

‘Such equipment actually exists in many bush farm homesteads.’

‘Mr Holt has bad memories of the drought years of the sixties when hundreds of kangaroos were dropping dead around the homestead and the station bores.’

1.2South African A hut or cluster of huts occupied by one family or clan, standing alone or as part of a traditional African village.

‘He believes that the existence of the graveyards follows a cultural trend whereby burial sites are situated close to homesteads and villages, especially in rural areas.’

‘The Commission's decision which was allegedly based on state practice also ended up splitting a single village and even a single homestead between the two countries.’

‘Despite the lull, impoverished villagers are still afraid to return to their homesteads.’

‘On any of these roads I have mentioned, you only need to be about 5 km away from the main road, or from the river, then you are in the bush with only the odd homestead or village here and there.’

‘The husband's family may descend upon the homestead - sometimes in the middle of the night - to take what they believe is rightfully theirs.’

‘And, likewise, tourists flying into Ondangwa and Oshakati are fascinated by the intricate patterned landscape of the traditional Owambo homesteads, for example.’

2North American historical An area of land (usually 160 acres) granted to a settler in the West as a home.

‘Thousands of these historic remnants litter national forests and wilderness areas, relics of homesteads or mining claims that predate the protected entity.’

‘Under the 1868 treaty Indians were permitted to claim 160-acre homesteads on public lands.’

‘In Kansas they built all-black towns, developed homesteads, and acquired land.’

‘Those who decided to stay in the East could select homesteads on former tribal land.’